Luke 20:24
“Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar’s.”
Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Cesar, or no?
But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar’s.
And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which be Cesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.
And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
Cross-References
“Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cesar.”
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.”
“Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,”
“And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Cesar’s.”
“While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cesar, have I offended any thing at all.”